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Lessons of the Cold War with Peter Robinson

The Genius of Thomas Sowell

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The History of Checkpoint Charlie

In 1990, the newspapers announced that they were going to be dismantling Checkpoint Charlie. The sign was put there for soldiers to know when they were crossing the barrier before the wall was built. "We saw down the sign, we put it in our truck, and we were like, yes, we did it," he says.

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